kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Can you read from the CDR from another OS? Can you swap the drive to a > different system? Have you checked all cables carefully? I mention the > last because I had a dead CDR (though it wasn't registering on boot > either) which turned out to have a disconnected IDE cable....
Well, I do have a Windows system on that machine, but I haven't yet tried to read the CD with it. (I simply don't use Windows anymore, can you imagine? :) Anyway, considering that - I can't boot from CDs anymore using that drive (it works with the same BIOS settings and CD, but with another drive) - it worked before I used this machine to bootstrap another one (exchanging boards, hard disks, and stuff) - everything works fine, when I put in another CD-ROM drive - it won't work, when I put this drive on the primary IDE controller or connect it to another board I'm pretty sure that it's the drive that's broken. So any ideas? I figure, that I can get another (possibly used) IDE drive very cheaply, I just wonder, whether I can get this back to work easily. That's why I tried to play an audio CD. I thought, that it might be the lens which needed cleaning. Won't cut it though. Thanks anyway, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ Geek Code (3.1): GCS/SS d-@ s+: a20 C++@ UL++$ P+ L+++ E--- W++ N++ o? K? !W O? M? V? PS++@ PE+(-) Y+ P?(+++) t+ 5+ X- R? !tv b+ DI+ D- G e>+++ h-- r- !y+
